Was there ever a time that you've felt overwhelmed by emotions at restaurants, movies, parties, or in crowds? Do you have weird swift changes in moods around certain people? Was there ever a time that you felt an abrupt energy drain around another person? How about feeling physical symptoms of those around you? If your response to each one of these is a yes, you might be one of those gifted psychic empaths!
'Empathy: The Psychic Gift of "Feeling"
Empathy belongs to the most famous types of the clairsentient psychic gift. It is the ability which allows the person to get psychic feelings or impressions. Empathy is more than just the psychic ability that enables a person to sense energies; it literally lets the individual feel its effects within their own body. In other words, when someone has an experience and they have a physical or emotional reaction, you instantly "experience it" too.
Generally, empathy is the easiest type of psychic information to receive. Then again, it is additionally the hardest to determine, because you eventually must be clear about whether what you are feeling is yours, or if you are picking it up from someone, from someplace, or from something else.
Involuntary vs. Voluntary Empathy
A psychic empath is a person who is very sensitive to various energies and its related vibrations. Empathy either can be voluntary or involuntary by origin.
The Involuntary Empath
Definitely, from the word itself "involuntary", such type of empathy is the term for one wherein people can unconsciously pick-up the energy vibrations without the intention to do so. Simply put, you're like this walking "psychic energy sponge" and you tend to accidentally absorb how others feel, even their problems!
The Voluntary Empath
This type of empathy is when the person may either like to accept the energies around him, or filter them via his auric field. Being a voluntary empath refers to people that have mastered how to use their special psychic gift and even keep it in check (e.g. like psychic readers or psychic mediums).
Psychic Empathy: A Blessing or a Curse?
The same as any psychic gift, empathy goes along with its benefits and drawbacks. If someone doesn't embrace this phenomenal ability, he could find himself problematic and disturbed in many cases -- picture how it would be to literally know and feel what most people are feeling!
On the other hand, being an empath is also something very special. Empaths are known to be very understanding, caring, and sensitive individuals; not to mention, empaths make great spiritual advisers.
Mastering Empathy: Is it Worth It?
Why do you need to embrace and master the empathic power? It is relatively simple -- ask yourself, are you interested to unintentionally carry all of the world's woes and emotional baggage? Surely you do not, right? This is one major reason why it's important to control this unique ability. Everyone can figure out how to control their inborn empathic gifts. You just simply need the right mixture of practice, dedication, and guidance.
Keep in mind, every person on this Earth has an innate psychic gift. Who knows, you might be an empath without you knowing it!
Every person is blessed with an innate psychic gift and we are all capable of unlocking the true power of our special psychic abilities! Accessing the power of your natural psychic ability is very easy,
There are three major forms of psychic abilities: clairvoyance, which in French means "clear seeing" and involves seeing psychic visions; clairaudience, which is hearing psychic messages; and clairsentience, or empathy, which is receiving psychic feelings or impressions. Empathy is the easiest form of psychic information to receive, but it is the hardest to define, because you must be clear about whether what you are feeling is yours, or if you are picking it up from someone, from someplace, or from something else.
People who are empathic are very sensitive to everything and everyone around them, and have often been told that they are "too sensitive", particularly throughout their childhood. Empaths are heartful, caring, kind people who want to please and make other people happy, and often tend to do volunteer work, or to work in service to others in some way. Empaths can have a tendency to be overweight, particularly in childhood, because they use their weight as a type of shield to protect themselves from other people's energies.
Empathic people can be "psychic sponges", picking up and absorbing energy everywhere they go, which is why it is very important for empaths to have strong boundaries of protection. It is absolutely essential for those who are empathic to envision a bubble of white light around them at all times as a psychic shield.
For those who are extremely sensitive, it is even better to imagine layers of boundaries like a rainbow surrounding them, beginning with a layer of red around the body, then a layer of orange surrounding that, then yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, and finally a thick layer of white light surrounding all the layers. Those who can be highly emotional may also want to put these rainbow layers around their heart, because empaths tend to experience the world through their heart, which can be challenging and painful.
Empathically sensitive people must be very diligent in cleansing themselves of other people's energies. One can release energy by using an affirmation such as, "I am willing to work with all that is mine, and I release all that is not mine". It can also be helpful to affirm, "I am willing to receive all that is for the highest good of all for me to know, and I am protected from all else". This will create a filter, so you will only receive information that is important for you to know and act upon.
You can use meditation and visualization for cleansing yourself energetically. You can visualize the doorway to your home and office as a shower of light that washes away all negative energy from all those who pass through it. You can also release negative energies by washing your hands in cold water up to your elbow, or standing barefoot in the grass. Whenever you take a shower, you can envision all negative energy being cleansed from you.
Meditation can also be very helpful for getting centered within yourself and getting to know what is going on within you. The most challenging thing about developing and honing empathic abilities is learning to discern between what feelings, sensations and emotions are yours, and what belongs to someone or something else.
Before you leave your home, take a moment to check in with yourself to determine how you are feeling. Then get a sense of what you feel inside you as you encounter different people and places throughout your day. If you meet a person or a group of people and find yourself feeling suddenly angry, depressed, sad, or agitated, or even having a sudden headache, tension or other aches and pains, then you may be absorbing energy and emotions from others. Ask yourself, "Is this mine?" to determine whether what you are feeling is yours or not.
Always watch out for sudden shifts in your mood or emotions. If you enter a place and suddenly feel tense, uneasy, gloomy, or even frightened, or if you get physical sensations such as chills, goosebumps, or dizziness, then you are picking up energies from what has transpired there. Places and things absorb energy from the experiences they have "witnessed", and therefore hold a historic record of significant emotional events. Empaths especially need protection in emotional places, like funerals, cemeteries, haunted buildings, crime scenes, etc. Empaths or clairvoyants can intuitively read the energetic impressions that have embedded themselves in a particular place or thing using the psychic gift of psychometry, which is often employed by psychic detectives.
One of the ways for an empath to read psychic energy, is through the hands. Psychometry involves touching an object or photograph to pick up on psychic impressions, which can come in the form of certain feelings, emotions, sensations, visions or quick flashes. Empathic people can also use their hands to read energy from people, making them outstanding healers, nurses, doctors and massage therapists. Empaths can feel when and where energy is flowing harmoniously or inharmoniously, and how to correct and balance it in people, and even in places. Empathic people are also excellent at real estate, interior design, and Feng Shui, because they can pick up on what other people want and need, and what makes others happy or uncomfortable - so they are also ideal matchmakers!
Trust is always key to developing intuition. You must learn to pay attention to the feelings and impressions that you receive wherever you go. You may have a feeling that you don't want to go into a certain place, or you don't want to connect with a certain person - always trust that those feelings are there for a reason, whether it makes rational sense to you or not. Remember that intuition does not come from the rational side of the brain, it comes from a place of higher knowing that is meant to guide you and keep you safe, so allow yourself to always trust what you feel.
